Dr. Dre Apologizes for Beating Up Women in His Past
Rapper Dr. Dre has publicly apologized for the violence he committed against women when he was younger.
Following his new hit album, "Compton," and his recently released biopic, "Straight Outta Compton" about his hip-hop group, N.W.A., backlash against Dr. Dre's abusive past forced the rapper to issue a public apology.
"Compton," his first album in 16 years, which sold over 280,000 copies and landed on the second place on music charts, went into an immediate downswing, dropping at least 85 percent, after an outcry over the rapper's abusive behavior that was apparently left out of his new movie, "Straight Out of Compton."
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The film, which premiered in theaters August 14, made more than $60 million on its opening weekend, and grossed over $100 million in North America in its second week running.
Despite the success of the film, it has prompted backlash from two women who have protested the exclusion of his violence from the biopic.
Dre, real name Andre Romelle Young, was previously sued by Fox TV host Dee Barnes of "Pump It Up," after he slammed her face and body against a cement wall to express his disagreement over her news report about a feud among N.W.A. members in 1991.
The lawsuit was settled out of court, for which Dre was fined and sentenced to two years' probation, as well as community service.
His former girlfriend, singer, Michel'le Toussaint, with whom he shares a son, also accused Dre of physical abuse during the time they were together in the 1990s but did not pursue legal action against the rapper.
Dre has also previously pleaded guilty over battery against an officer of the law in 1992 after a brawl in a New Orleans Hotel, a case in which he was convicted.
The rapper has admitted he had made "horrible mistakes" when he was younger, wishing he could take them all back, but has said he has paid for those mistakes, and has been doing everything possible since never to become the kind of person he was 25 years ago.
